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edders

edders is the plural of edder.

Meaning of edder

Noun (1)

edder (plural edders)

  1. (plural-normally) A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
    • […] including the making [of] a stake and edder hedge. I had a large quantity of excellent manure out of this ditch, consisting of rotten wood, leaves, &c. &c. &c. But in this experiment I found that our stake and edder hedges are little more to be depended on than the fet ones.1771, Arthur Young, A Course of Experimental Agriculture: Containing an Exact Register of All the Business Transacted During Five Years on Near Three Hundred Acres of Various Soils ... The Whole...

Noun (2)

edder (plural edders)

  1. An adder or snake.
    • winges like a bird she hase,
      Fete as an edder, a mayden's face,
      Her kinde I'll take1816, J. H. Hansall, The Stranger in Chester

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Questions about edders

What is edders the plural of?
Edders is the plural of edder.

Words near edders in the dictionary

  1. Eddaic
  2. Eddas
  3. edder
  4. eddered
  5. eddering
  6. edders
  7. Edderton
  8. eddic
  9. eddication
  10. Eddie
  11. Eddie the Eagle rule

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